Quotes About Decision

governments must be left again to the old way of being made by contrivance and the consent of men

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order to be spared the anxiety that comes when one is... thrown into seventy thousand fathoms.

Although data can make a compelling case for something, data rarely create the emotions needed to spur people into action

The biggest risk, is to take no risks

Let's go home,' Homer said, 'to Hell.

No, that's being too logical! You're my best friends! I don't want to be that logical!" Neither did I, when I thought about it. "Ok, then" I said. "All for one and one for all. Let's go. The three musketeers.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

About this time, whether he felt there wasn't sufficient drama in his life or that he was determined not to be outdone by Miss McCabe, he decided that he was dying.

Call it the bipolar's dilemma: Take a chance and we risk losing control of our brains. Play it safe and we isolate ourselves from humanity.

I picked up a secondhand copy—$7.99—and read the text on the back: "Either, then, one is to live aesthetically or one is to live ethically." My heart was pounding. There was a book about this?

The hours I had spent like that, making my fingers simper at each other. I would never write about that. It was enough I had wasted the time once. I would never waste more time by writing about it.

That was the best thing about college: it was so easy to leave. You could be in the place where you lived, having an argument that you had basically started, and then you could just say, "See you later," and go somewhere else.

The right choice was usually the more difficult one.

She weighs the decision for a moment, then butters the baguette and pops it in her mouth. It's so delicious that she doesn't care if they have to roll her off the island in a wheelbarrow.

Hope had been in the NICU for a week before she was named. The name her parents had picked out was Allison—Allegra and Allison, for nauseating twin symmetry—but after all that transpired, they changed their minds and decided to call her Hope, no explanation needed. She was a survivor, an underdog who had prevailed;

She chastised herself and considered calling back, but in the end she had the good sense to return to reading Stephen Crane.

If I had stayed on Nantucket in 1993 instead of going home…my sister's life, my friend Jake's life, and my friend Fray's life all would have been different.

Scotland? Dru-Ann wonders if Nick feels that Phineas's remarkable showing somehow justifies Posey's decision to quit the Dow. He had a dream he was going to win. Maybe Nick thinks it's romantic, Posey sacrificing her own nearly certain victory to be at her boyfriend's side. It's not romantic, Dru-Ann thinks. It's pitiful! While Avalon is making herself an herbal tea

An irascible man who understood his own character, he would hold off on any personnel decision for twenty-four hours, allowing his judgment to dominate his temper.

Who's to know what makes a bird wake up and decide to change its song? It was written that our world would change and it changed.

Rollan frowned. "Conor, is this what I sounded like that day Olvan asked us to become Greencloaks? If so, I give you permission to punch me. Once. In the shoulder.

One door was shut and a gate was wide open for me. I step in the gate and keep on walking and never will I want to go back to that door.